CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT DAVIS FOX WASHINGTON GRAPE UNION PATRIOTIC COVER

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HERE’S AN UNCOMMON CIVIL WAR ANTI-CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS COMICAL UNION PATRIOTIC COVER DESCRIPTION: The cover features an excellent caricature cachet vignette of traitor Jefferson Davis as a fox with a Confederate flag tail, attempting to scale a wall with Union bayonets, hoping to reach grapes on a vine, with the text: “THE WASHINGTON GRAPE – THE CHANCES ARE SCALY” The fox represents Jefferson Davis, eyeing a bunch of grapes, representing Washington D.C., hanging from a vine that has been trained over a lofty branch. The only way to the grapes is jump to the top of the wall. The top of the wall is protected by bayonets. The wall and the bayonets most likely represent the fortifications and soldiers protecting Washington D.C.. The image is a reference to the Aesop fable, The Fox and the Grapes, whose moral is that it is easy to despise what one cannot get. The cover measures 5½” x 3" and is in Very Fine Condition, complete with backflap. There is no printer’s mark